Or, if you are lazy, you can use your off-hand thumb: grip the stay
adjacent to the rim wall as you turn the wheel and wrench the spokes with
the dominant hand. I built my first and only wheel using bike frame and
thumb, and I've trued innumerable others this way.
Oh, and you can also use a
Personally, if I had a perfect wheel built by a professional I would not
mess with it at all. Better to get another wheel than try to do something
that I am no expert in which is why I pay good money for perfect wheels in
the first place so that never need to be touched at all !
Either I
Garth, I've decided to try that first. I'm OCD about cross-chaining, so I don't
need the big/big combo to work. I suspect the wheel will be fine with more
spacers on each side on my CLEM. Thanks everybody for your info on this
subject, it was very educational.
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For the final, precision truing, you can essentially turn your frame into a
truing stand by attaching a pair of zip ties to the stays, directly
opposite the rim. Trim the extra strip so that they are just slightly
longer than needed to touch the rim, and then rotate and slide them until
they
Is the XT hub sealed or loose ball bearing? I'm not sure it even makes a
difference, but for loose ball and many sealed bearing hubs, this is an
extremely easy swap. If you don't have a disposable 135 donor hub/wheel
lying around, from which you can steal the axle, they are available from
I can't speak to the axle transplant, but I think there's some re-dish in
your future as well.
Jeff Hagedorn
Los Angeles, CA USA
On Sunday, January 17, 2016 at 1:16:14 PM UTC-8, Joe Bernard wrote:
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> My soon-too-be-shipped CLEM frame is going to need wheels, and I have a
> dilemma. I have a
Hmm. I'm notoriously chicken about dishing, but I have two wheels, no frame and
rainy days ahead of me. I guess I'll get to work and hopefully not hash it up
too much!
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since you will have 5mm extra, if you use a longer axle, you could artificially
dish by using the spacers instead of actually truing the rim over
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What is "the zip-tie method" ?
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I have done these swaps lots of times sometimes changing out the freehub
body as well. I recently changed out an old MTB wheel with m737 XT 8spd 135
hub to a 7spd 130 hub for use on my '93 XO-3 which unfortunately has road
spacing (128mm) on a 26" wheel. Someday I should get the frame
Yeah, Dave, I'm thinking a new axle might be in order. I was thinking I would
rob a bunch of stuff from an old Bianchi mtb I picked up for a song (and don't
need), but I'm slowly realizing I have an absurd surplus of parts for my CLEM.
I think I'll keep the wheels on the poor, pristine Bianchi
Hello Joe,
I recently did this, but in the opposite direction, 135mm down to 126mm OLD
for an early '80's mixte Shogun that I'm setting up for my wife. I used the
shorter axel from the original wheel and what ever spacers I had laying
around to get to 126. I had centered the rim as Keith had
On Sunday, January 17, 2016 at 4:31:49 PM UTC-8, Joe Bernard wrote:
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> What is "the zip-tie method" ?
I believe it's where one installs a zip-tie each on both seat-stays and use
those as gauges to true a wheel. A poor man's wheel truing stand, really.
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